Change General preferences in Safari on Mac

Safari opens with

Choose how each Safari session starts: with a new window, a new private window, all the windows from your last session, or all the non-private windows from your last session.

This option is shown only if “Close windows when quitting an app” is selected in the General pane of System Preferences.

New windows open with

Choose what a new Safari window contains.

• Start Page: See websites you’ve marked as Favorites, a Privacy Report summary, your Reading List, and webpages open on other Apple devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.

• Homepage: The homepage you set in the Homepage field below.

• Empty Page: An empty Safari window with no page address or content.

• Same Page: The webpage you most recently viewed.

• Tabs for Favorites: All the bookmarks in Favorites as a set of tabs.

• Choose tabs folder: The bookmarks in the bookmarks folder you choose.

New tabs open with

Choose what a new tab contains.

• Start Page: See websites you’ve marked as Favorites, a Privacy Report summary, your Reading List, and webpages open on other Apple devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.

• Homepage: The homepage you set in the Homepage field below.

• Empty Page: An empty Safari window with no page address or content.

• Same Page: The webpage you most recently viewed.

Homepage

Enter the URL of the webpage you want to use as your homepage, or click Set to Current Page to use the current active page.

Remove history items

Choose when to remove items from the history.

Start Page Favorites

Choose the bookmarks folder whose bookmarks you want shown on the start page and in the start page view that appears below the Smart Search field.

File download location

Choose where to save items you download from the internet, or have Safari always ask where you want to save downloads.

Remove download list items

Choose when to remove items from the list.

Open “safe” files after downloading

In Safari, automatically open the listed types of files, but not software.